The Haiti Earthquake Mw = 7.0 of January 12 th 2010: Structural and geotechnical engineering field observations, near-field ground motion estimation and interpretation of the damage to buildings and infrastructure in the Port-au-Prince area

Ingegneria Sismica

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 24-42

  Carydis, Panayotis ^a   Lekkas, Efthymis ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Earthquake reconnaissance; Historical and traditional buildings; Liquefaction and phases of liquefaction; Vertical seismic component

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE RECONNAISSANCE; ECONOMIC CONDITION; ENGINEERING FIELDS; FIELD STUDIES; FIELD TRIPS; GEOTECHNICAL; GROUND DISPLACEMENT; GROUND MOTIONS; HORIZONTAL ACCELERATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEAR-FIELD GROUND MOTIONS; PRIMARY EFFECTS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SEISMIC EVENT; TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS; VERTICAL ACCELERATIONS; VERTICAL SEISMIC COMPONENT;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LIQUEFACTION; MOTION ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84859097528     PISSN: 03931420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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